Word: bier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands, and around his waist tied the knotted white cord of the Third Order of St. Francis. Boston politicians draped City Hall in crape and half-staffed flags; they carried the casket to the Statehouse, where it rested three days with a policemen's guard around the bier and 100,000 filing past. Whispered one old lady: "If the Good Lord had made a pact with Curley and given him a choice between this here and a little more time on earth, Curley would have taken this...
While his body lay in state at Rome's North American College, prelates and priests, diplomats and laymen filed by his bier. Mourning alone in the Vatican was an old friend of his days as a young priest in Rome, Pope Pius XII-forbidden by papal protocol from visiting anyone, even in death...
...Schnell Bier. In Auerbach, West Germany, a tavern owner got a letter from the United States containing 6? from a tourist who said he had forgotten to pay for a beer...
Echoing the growing sentiments of many gloomy Midwestern Republicans who are muttering in their bier, Kansas' Republican Senator Andy Schoeppel -who is also chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee-suggested to his party brethren on a TV show that they should steer clear of President Eisenhower and his program if they want to be re-elected in November...
Crying at the Bier. Throughout the three speeches, Khrushchev revealed himself as a man still trying to squeeze free from his own complicity in Stalin's crimes, while well aware that he had gone too far in his sensational, weepy indictment of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress. What is needed now, said Khrushchev, is a balanced view on Stalin, "the positive side which we support and highly value and the negative side which we criticize and condemn." Stalin, he said, had to act in "an atmosphere of fierce struggle against class enemies and their agents in the party...